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raincoaster: a small, hobbit-like creature of limitless megalomania and occasional homicidal tendencies. Like that’s bad or something

Down, Boys!

January 7, 2009 – 11:29 am

Well, this is interesting. Okay, it’s not: it’s just weird and hilarious, both inadvertently AND advertently. And filthy.
So you know why it’s here.

via Irina Slutsky

Posted in Culture, Dating, Entertainment, Humour, Sex, Singles, Spring Fever, YouTube, Zeta Males, humor, music, tasteless | Comments (7)

The Lol, Explained

January 5, 2009 – 9:25 am
Posted in Culture, Humour, Jokes, Science, animals, cats, comics, humor, lol, lolcats, meme | Comments (14)

Casual Fridays Gone Wild

January 3, 2009 – 8:02 am

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

Posted in Etiquette, Humour, Work, comics, humor | Comments (4)

Internet Safety 101

January 3, 2009 – 2:28 am

He lurks everywhere!

via Carocat

Posted in Cthulhu, Culture, Dating, Facebook, Humour, Public Service Announcement, Squid, children, computers, friends, geek, horror, humor, kids, lol, meme | Comments (17)

Phones for Fearless: Phase II

December 30, 2008 – 10:03 am

Read all about it: Phones for Fearless is far from finished! With all the great gifts people got over the holidays, we know there will be some used phones, cameras, and other mobile devices kicking around looking for new homes, and we stand ready to provide them!
Donate your old mobile phones to help DTES artists [...]

Posted in Art, Blogging, Canada, Christmas, Culture, Digg, Downtown Eastside, Public Service Announcement, Vancouver, charity, computers, geek, media, mobile, news, reddit, social media, technology | Comments (10)

Coming Out at Christmas

December 28, 2008 – 2:44 am

It’s rare that tottering around YouTube finds one a new classic of the internets, but today it did indeed and in truth do even so. Behold, the London Gay Men’s Chorus performing Coming Out at Christmas:

and these are not the lyrics, but they ARE amusing.

Posted in Christmas, Culture, Dating, Entertainment, Etiquette, Family, Holiday, Humour, London, bigotry, gender, humor, music | Comments (4)

The Carol Channing Christmas Message

December 28, 2008 – 12:09 am

What’s the difference, really, between one old Queen and another?

Which reminds me, in fact, of the time (I was not there, you understand, I heard it later, she wasn’t talking to me by that time) the Queen Mum phoned down to her butler’s switchboard or staff room or whatever it was [...]

Posted in Celebrity, Christmas, Culture, Entertainment, Hoaxes, Lush Life, Psychedelic, cocktails, hipsters | Comments (0)

A Christmas Tradition

December 25, 2008 – 3:59 am

This is a repost from last year. As a bittersweet Christmas post, I don’t think it can be topped, so I’m reposting it. If nothing else, read A Christmas Story. You’ll thank me.

One morning quite some while ago I was awoken by my sister, who’d been sent by my mother, walking into my room, banging [...]

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MIA?

December 24, 2008 – 9:31 am

I know what you’re asking yourself: you’re sitting there (or standing, or lying, prone or supine as the case may be although it’s not easy to read a computer screen that way but whatever) wondering where I’ve been for the past day or so.
Here.
And what have I been doing? Over the past four days, 1000 [...]

Posted in Blogging, Canada, Culture, Downtown Eastside, Fearless City, Gonzo, Operation Global Media Domination, Vancouver, charity, geek, marketing, media, mobile, news, social media, technology | Comments (0)

Snow in Seattle: Pic O’ The Day!

December 22, 2008 – 9:10 am

I really can’t say why (especially after this many festive Martinis) but this picture resonates with me and reminds me of Cartier Bresson’s Decisive Moment, although there is nothing decisive about this whatsoever, which is in and of itself in fact and in actuality very, very West Coast indeed.

Posted in Allegory, Art, Culture, U.S., photography | Comments (11)